Jakiw Palij

Jakiw Palij (also Yakiv Paliy, , born August 16, 1923) is a Polish-born Ukrainian man who lost his United States citizenship for having "made material misrepresentations in his application for a visa to immigrate to the United States," He later worked as a draftsman in the United States.
Born in the village of Piadyki, Poland (now Pyadyky, Ukraine), Palij began working at age 18 at Trawniki. Palij fled to Germany after the end of World War II and entered the United States in 1949 as a refugee by claiming to have been a farmer in his father's farm in Poland and a factory worker in Germany. After settling in Manhattan with Jaroslaw Bilaniuk, he worked as a draftsman at the New York office of Johnson Controls, before retiring to Jackson Heights, Queens. Palij became a naturalized United States citizen in 1957.
In 2002, the OSI filed suit to revoke both men's United States citizenship as both men had "failed to disclose their wartime service." Palij was found by the court to be guilty of collaboration with Nazi Germany Bilaniuk died in 2007.

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